A few days after the announcement of Palm to develop its own Linux operating system for smart phones, it is the turn of Japanese Access - which bought the company Palm Source editor of the Palm OS system - to announce its offensive against the market for operating systems for mobile devices. A few months before the release of its system ALP stands for Access Linux Platform, Access wants to recruit new developers publishing today a first version of a kit compatibility Garnet VM. This tool, used by both users of Windows or Linux, allows developers to garnet OS applications to test their operation on the new system ALP. To do this, so this is an emulation of this system will be proposed. The first developers who have used this tool brings more than this emulator supports development of applications Garnet OS v5.5, operates in a QVGA allows you to choose different fonts systems. The development kit includes plus a manager PIM with a possibility of quick access to test its applications. With some advance on his new competitor Palm, it remains to be seen whether the latter will also publish quickly to the different application developers a Linux operating environment for the design of new programmers. Both systems boast elsewhere for the time being remain both compatible with older Palm OS
Jun 26